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Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I: Genealogies -- Chapter 1 Life and Death at Strangeways The Tissue-Culture Point of View -- Chapter 2 Immortality, In Vitro A History of the HeLa Cell Line -- Part II: Maternity in Question -- Chapter 3 "From Generation to Generation" Imagining Connectedness in the Age of Reproductive Technologies -- Chapter 4 Mediating Intimacy Black Surrogate Mothers and the Law -- Chapter 5 Body Boundaries, Fiction of the Female Self An Ethnographic Perspective on Power, Feminism, and the Reproductive Technologies -- Chapter 6 An All-Consuming Experience Obstetrical Ultrasound and the Commodification of Pregnancy -- Part III: Ethics and the Technological Subject -- Chapter 7 Computerized Cadavers Shades of Being and Representation in Virtual Reality -- Chapter 8 Chorea/graphing Chorea The Dancing Body of Huntington's Disease -- Chapter 9 The Ventilator/Baby as Cyborg A Case Study in Technology and Medical Ethics -- Chapter 10 The Ethics of the Organ Market Lloyd R. Cohen and the Free Marketeers -- Part IV: Biotechnology and Globalization -- Chapter 11 Reach Out and Heal Someone Rural Telemedicine and the Globalization of U. S. Health Care -- Chapter 12 Biotechnology on the Margins A Haitian Discourse on French Medicine -- CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

School choice : a report card / Paul E. Peterson -- The case for charter schools / Bryan C. Hassel -- Governance and educational quality / John E. Brandl -- Civic values in public and private schools / Jay P. Greene -- Policy churn and the plight of urban school reform / Frederick M. Hess -- Analyzing school choice reforms that use America's traditional forms of parental choice / Caroline M. Hoxby -- Interdistrict choice in Massachusetts / David L. Armour and Brett M. Peiser -- Charter schools as seen by students, teachers, and parents / Gregg Vanourek ... [et al.] -- The performance of privately managed schools : an early look at the Edison Project / John E. Chubb -- Charter schools : politics and practice in four states / Bryan C. Hassel -- Comparing public choice and private voucher programs in San Antonio / R. Kenneth Godwin, Frank R. Kemerer, and Valerie J. Martinez -- Evidence from the Indianapolis voucher program / David J. Weinschrott and Sally B. Kilgore -- School choice in Milwaukee : a randomized experiment / Jay P. Greene, Paul E. Peterson, and Jiangtao Du -- Lessons from the Cleveland scholarship program / Jay P. Greene, William Howell, and Paul E. Peterson -- Why parents should choose / Stephen G. Gilles -- School choice and state constitutional law / Joseph P. Viteritti

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1. From Middle Class to Underclass to Class War? -- A Touch of Class (Tension, That Is) -- A Little More Class Tension-Some Simple Numbers -- The Coming Class Tension-Some Harder Numbers -- Do You Have a Friend in Prison? -- How Did It Get This Bad? -- 2. Money, Wall Street, and the New American Plutocracy -- Twenty-Five Years of Prosperity-"The Age of Keynes" -- The End of the Bretton Woods System -- Emergence of the "Casino Economy" -- Enter the Transnational Corporation